Community Development, a social policy and social movement in contemporary Taiwan, in the very recent period (from 1994 onwards) was affirmed, empowered and legitimised in a new wave of a broad community development context. Pragmatically, Community Development is regarded as a concrete practice to represent the emergence of self-consciousness, local empowerment and public participation in the built environment. In this paper, Community Development is examined through different discourses. Interacting with Taiwan's everyday life, its different roles in society are analysed. Most importantly, a critical question behind this movement emerges: how does community development, a once neutral concept, become entangled in particular geopolitical and cultural contexts, and thus engage with different forms of identity through different representations in society?